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Trinity Voices

Hope Challenge

12/7/2015

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Picture
for people just waiting.
Waiting for a train to go
or a bus to come, or a plane to go
or the mail to come, or the rain to go
or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow
or waiting around for a Yes or a No
or waiting for their hair to grow.
Everyone is just waiting.

-Dr. Suess

I love Dr. Seuss.  In Oh! The Places You’ll Go, he writes about the “waiting place.” 

I hate to wait, especially for something I really want.  Elizabeth had waited and hoped throughout her marriage for a child.  But I would venture to guess that the last nine months were the hardest wait of all.  When we wait upon the Lord, we never wait in vain.  Waiting can be a spiritual practice if we use our waiting time to practice patience and trust in God.

This week, allow someone to go ahead of you in a line (at the grocery store, the bank, wherever lines form).  Use your “waiting time” to pray silently and ask God to provide you with patience in an area of your life where you are currently feeling frustrated or discouraged. 

-Pastor Tracey Leslie

How did you meet the hope challenge this week? Tell us below or send your stories/pictures to ruth@trinitylafayette.org

1 Comment
Jennifer
12/8/2015 05:52:31 pm

Live Dr Seuss and love this book, gave it to my children when they graduated and got it as a gift from my oldest son when I went back and got my degree at age 55. I spend a lot of time waiting, even now in a taxi cab in traffic in NY. I try to spend my time waiting as reflection time of both good and bad but during the holiday season especially counting my blessings. I miss my parents always but especially this time of year and often reflect on how lucky I was as a child even when I may not have realized it then. I pray that my father knows that the dark place I was in when he died is over and I am successful and hopefully making him proud. I reflect on all the good my mother did and pray that I can continue to lean on her and be as good to all people as she was to everyone.

I will continue to use waiting time as a time for reflection and prayer.

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